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Old 03-25-2010, 08:34 PM
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Alright, I have new front wheel hubs on both sides, a new trac bar, and my cherokee has been aligned two times to make sure, and it still pulls to the left, and sometimes to the right, brand new tires, which I had rotated around to make sure they weren't the problem. I was wondering if anyone had any idea what is going on with this thing. I know someone had told me on here that they had a similar experince with their steering box bad, but what other issues could also be causing this?
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Bad front end parts such as tie rods, ball joints
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Check your rear, make sure its control arms are tight and bushings are good. you dont want that rear walking around. And much more common of a problem, check your tie rods and steering links. Go outside jack up the front end and stick a pipe or pry bar under the tire and see if anything feels loose. Grab the two front tires, one at a time and try to move em left and right by hand see if anything feels loose. Report back and let us know if everything checks out from there.
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check the draglink end on your driver side. make sure it's not coming into contact with your rotor.
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Things that affect the steering, ball joints, tie rod ends, track bar, CA Bushings, and axle shaft u-joints. Check all of those. Also could be a bad steering gear box.
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Okey Dokey thank ya much, I'll give all that a look-see ASAP, probably monday as I work Thur-Sun 10-12 so not much time to get any work done in that time
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Alright well I just replaced my passenger caliper with a good one, and I checked everything, twisted the wheels with both off the ground, no play in anything, and it is still drifting to the left, and even more so when I am braking
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